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Cincinnati Ballet holds Young Performer Auditions for ‘The Nutcracker’

By Ashley Kruger Young performer auditions for Frisch’s Big Boy Presents The Nutcracker will take place throughout the day Saturday, August 19 and call back auditions Sunday, August 20 at The Cincinnati Ballet Center, located at 1555 Central Parkway. Now in its 43rd annual production, the timeless holiday tradition runs December 14 through 24 at the newly renovated and historic Music Hall. Cincinnati Ballet’s The Nutcracker will include approximately 70 young dancers this season. Eligible dancers between the ages … Continue reading Cincinnati Ballet holds Young Performer Auditions for ‘The Nutcracker’

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Pittsburgh City Paper

‘Beautiful Struggle’ to explore themes of race, gender and privilege

By Steve Sucato The last time Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project visited the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, a dancer’s injury forced the company to alter its program and present a work-in-progress showing of Beautiful Struggle. This weekend, the contemporary dance company based in Columbus, Ohio, and Burkina Faso returns with the completed version of this thought-provoking dance-theater work. Beautiful Struggle “reflects on questions of belonging … visibility and invisibility, which are themes often … Continue reading ‘Beautiful Struggle’ to explore themes of race, gender and privilege

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Dance Reviews 2013, The Plain Dealer

Paul Taylor Dance Company brings joy, humor and genius to PlayhouseSquare

Reviewed by Steve Sucato Special to The Plain Dealer  With a body of work that is as rich and celebrated as choreographer Paul Taylor’s, the question when his namesake company comes to Cleveland is not whether it will be a good program but whether it will be a great one. Saturday night’s performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company at PlayhouseSquare’s Ohio Theatre was the … Continue reading Paul Taylor Dance Company brings joy, humor and genius to PlayhouseSquare

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Pittsburgh City Paper

Pittsburgh’s Pillow Project to create art amidst ash in ‘The Jazz Furnace’

By Steve Sucato Call it site-specific dance on a gargantuan scale. The Pillow Project takes its improvisational “Postjazz” movement style and video wizardry to a whole new level when it invades the Carrie Blast Furnaces, in Rankin, on Oct. 12, for a daylong extravaganza titled The Jazz Furnace. Built in 1907, the Carrie Furnaces number 6 and 7 tower 92 feet over the Monongahela River. Until 1978, … Continue reading Pittsburgh’s Pillow Project to create art amidst ash in ‘The Jazz Furnace’

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Press Releases

DANCEVERT to hold benefit dance party

By Audrey Cervas (Cleveland, Ohio)- DANCEVERT presents Geometry In Motion, a benefit dance party March 16 at 7:30 PM to support the newly titled work and educational program at the All About Dancin’, ballroom located at 2155 Freeman Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (Just South of the West side Market in Ohio City). DANCEVERT returns with new arts-integrated programming which has resulted in unprecedented success with the Partners in Education program … Continue reading DANCEVERT to hold benefit dance party

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